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companies. I test the joint hypothesis that 1) a decrease in cash/collateral decreases investment, holding fixed the … profitability of investment, and 2) the finance costs of different parts of the same corporation are interdependent. The results … support this joint hypothesis: oil companies significantly reduced their non-oil investment compared to the median industry …
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consumption, portfolio allocation, financing, investment, and business exit decisions. The optimal capital structure is determined …
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. Third, the fund will be set up in a manner similar to that observed in practice, with investments pooled within a fund …, decision rights over investments held by the general partner, and limits set in partnership agreements on the size of … particular investments. Fourth, the model suggests that incentives will lead to overinvestment in good states of the world and …
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We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We … evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary transmission to aggregate investment …
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Past attempts to measure the impact of taxes on corporate debt policy have focused on larger firms. Given that the top statutory corporate tax rate has varied little in recent years, tax incentives vary among these firms, almost entirely due to current or prospective tax losses. Results are...
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The purpose of this paper is to estimate a model that incorporates the effects of financial decisions on production, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends which then influence production decisions. The...
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We use micro data from Orbis on firm level balance sheets and income statements to document that accounting returns for privately held businesses are dispersed, persistent, and negatively correlated with firm equity. We also show that firms experience large, fat-tailed, and partly transitory...
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We analyze U.S. banks' asset exposure to a recent rise in the interest rates with implications for financial stability. The U.S. banking system's market value of assets is $2 trillion lower than suggested by their book value of assets accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity....
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prevalence of incurrence covenants indirectly imposes significant constraints on investments as restricted actions become binding …: Similar to the effects associated with the shift of control rights to creditors in traditional loans, the drop in investment … under incurrence covenants is large and sudden. The deleveraging and drop in investment and market value associated with …
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